The Syllabus Assignment

Comic by Jorge Cham

The goal for this assignment is to create the syllabus for one of the following courses offered at App State.

  • ENG 1500 – Introduction to Literature (3)
  • ENG 2010 – British Literature to 1789 (3)
  • ENG 2020 – British Literature since 1789 (3)
  • ENG 2030 – World Literature to 1650 (3) [GenEd: LS]
  • ENG 2040 – World Literature since 1650 (3) [GenEd: LS]
  • ENG 2070 – World Mythologies (3) [GenEd: LS]
  • ENG 2120 – African-American Literature (3) [GenEd: LS]
  • ENG 2130 – Ethnic-American Literature (3) [GenEd: LS]
  • ENG 2310 – American Literature to 1865 (3)
  • ENG 2320 – American Literature since 1865 (3)

Here’s a link to these courses in the bulletin, so you can see course descriptions. You can also find sample syllabi and models in this folder. Here are several resources from the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) and Academic Affairs (AA) that you might find useful and will lead you to create a course that is in compliance with App State standards:

Your syllabus will have all the elements of a complete syllabus: a course description, active learning objectives that reference Bloom’s Taxonomy, an evaluation method, required and recommended texts, a robust week-by-week outline, and clearly stated and inclusive course policies.

This syllabus, along with a 1-2 page discussion of your course design and choices, will be due on Friday, April 1.

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.